This anthology provides a comprehensive selection of the writing by Bakhtin and of that attributed to Voloshinov and Medvedev. It introduces readers to the aspects most relevant to literary and cultural studies and gives a focused sense of Bakhtin's central ideas and the underlying cohesiveness of his thinking.
This anthology provides a comprehensive selection of the writing by Bakhtin and of that attributed to Voloshinov and Medvedev. It introduces readers to the aspects most relevant to literary and cultural studies and gives a focused sense of Bakhtin's central ideas and the underlying cohesiveness of his thinking.
AcknowledgementsIntroduction11Critique of Saussurian Linguistics (Voloshinov/Bakhtin)252Critique of Freudianism (Voloshinov/Bakhtin)383Language as Dialogic Interaction (Voloshinov/Bakhtin)484Reported Speech as Index of Social Change (Voloshinov/Bakhtin)615Social Heteroglossia (Bakhtin)736Speech Genres (Bakhtin)807Dostoevsky's Polyphonic Novel: A Plurality of Consciousness (Bakhtin)888The Dialogic Idea as Novelistic Image (Bakhtin)979Double-Voiced Discourse in Dostoevsky (Bakhtin)10210The Heteroglot Novel (Bakhtin)112(Note on the Two Stylistic Lines of the Novel)12011Literature as Ideological Form (Bakhtin/Medvedev)12312Critique of Formalism (Bakhtin/Medvedev)13513Constructing a Sociological Poetics (Voloshinov/Bakhtin)16014Genres as Ideological Forms (Bakhtin/Medvedev)17415Aesthetic Visualizing of Time/Space: The Chronotope (Bakhtin)18016The Serio-Comical Tradition of the Menippea (Bakhtin)18717Folk Humour and Carnival Laughter (Bakhtin)19418Carnival Ambivalence: Laughter, Praise and Abuse (Bakhtin)20619The Banquet, the Body and the Underworld (Bakhtin)226A Glossary of Key Terms245Bibliography253Index257